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| - My first experience with Dickens was seeing one of my favourite bands, Cursive there a couple years back during Sled Island, which was so great there is no way I could have had a bad experience there. This is a great, intimate show venue and I have come to really enjoy watching music here.
It also isn't a bad place to just grab a drink with friends. Last night I popped by, and was a little disgruntled to be charged cover for a band I'd never heard of when I was just popping in for an 8:30 pm beer. However, the chill environment in comparison to other pubs in the area was probably worth it. Our server was slow as molasses and didn't really notice when I joined my friends, so I ordered up some pints of Velvet Fog from the bar tender who put on a tolerant face to these stupid drunk girls spilling their shots as they took them. So friendly was this bartender, that I didn't even mind being called "sweetheart" by a stranger a bunch of times.
The price of Wild Rose on tap is average, which is just fine with me. And the band who had set up, actually turned out to be pretty good, and not some shitty black metal or something like we had feared.
The only downside to Dickens, is the stamp they gave me upon paying cover hasn't quite come off even with a shower, so now it just says the word DICK in caps on my hand. Life could be worse I guess.
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